Comment EI-13952
Received or sent (printed as 9/29/2008)
The Draft EIS was flawed. You can not possibly approve this sale without having based your study on correct data. Some examples: Unsubstantiated and Unsourced Data: If an environmental impact study is meant to provide interested members of the public, the STB Board, and regulatory agencies with the details necessary to be fully informed of the environmental impacts, this DEIS fails completely. The DEIS is filled with unsubstantiated claims based on unsourced data. As an example, the DEIS uses analysis and mitigation thresholds for noise and hazardous materials that are unsubstantiated and have been sharply criticized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Transportation in previous Environmental Impact Studies prepared by SEA. The public perception of validity for this DEIS must be based on an acceptable level of data validity and transparency. In this document, these characteristics are spotty at best. You must not approve this acquistion without resolving these issues! Thank you for your consideration. Jan Hewitt
Submitted by: Jan Hewitt · Wayne, IL
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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